Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 16.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cardioceras cordatum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, ooidal lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. Gygi
• Repository: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NHMB)
Primary reference: A. Bonnot and R. A. Gygi. 1998. Les Euaspidoceratinae (Ammonitina, Aspidoceratidae) d'Herznach (Suisse septentrionale) à la fin de la zone à Cordatum (Oxfordien inférieur). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 91:493-512 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190018: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.11.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Euaspidoceras ovale Neumann 1907 ammonite
Euaspidoceras freii Jeannet 1951 ammonite | |
Mirosphinctes "sp. B" ammonite
Mirosphinctes niedzwiedzkii Siemiradzki 1891 ammonite |